The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-06-24
E.OCAE. NEWS.

Last Tuesday was the longest day of the
year.
Alex. Albicn and family moved yester-
day to Gloucester City.
The vendors of early 'truck" are whoop-
ing it up on our streets.
Bruna makes his first excursion OF the
season to Atlantic City on July 18th.
In Whites regular watch club OF Mon
day, Jacob Smith, Woodstown, drew the
watch.
Look ont for the change in the railroad
Timetable tomorrow. The corrected
timetable appears at the head of our local
columns.
All ex-soldiers of the rebellion are ex-
empt, by an act of Assembly passed by the
last Legislature, from paying a local
school tax.
The wheat fields are yellow ing for
the harvest. There is a large lot of hay
down. Farmers arc busy, and crops are
looking well.
A busy time with the farmers made the
attendance at Lippincott, Smith and
IIcwitt's cattle sale on Monday somewhat
small, and only about half of the cattle
were sold.
In these days of Thunderstorm and light
ming strokes arc your buildings well pro-
tcctcd by an insurance policy in a reliable
company /? Ii not, had you not better sec
Fogg & Isichman about it without delay =?
The f. i. Humphreys Pantaloon Com
pany have so far sold all their productions
as fast as madc-and now have orders
booked for all the stock they can produce
To August LIST. They are making credit
able work and it is meeting with ready
u-1 G,Nz1-, 10 tlo,x, OrJ oil lilo nntpr
priScs.
An important law directly affecting
school districts was passed during the last
session of the Legislature. We refer to
Chapter 1868 of the School Act, which re-
qnires all treas,lrers in school districts to
place on the 18th Of Sept. in each year all
balances of school moneys in their hands
with the county collector, unless the ooun-
ty superintendent directs otherwise.
Our exchanges in all parts of the State
arc ''rackcting' the township authorities
about the bad condition of the guide boards
at the public road crossings, and we have
taken our whaek with the rest. Brethren,
suppose we all strike at once on this ques-
ton. Is it y go? All right Now thenl
One, two, threc!-The various township
authorities will please take warning and
act accordingly before the axe falls.
The teachers for the Public Schools of
District No. 26, Woodstown and Fcnwiek,
have been engaged for tho coming school
year, as follows: Woodstown. Principal,
Neale ID. Avis; intermediate Department,
Miss Ida p. Ackley, late of Perth Amboy;
Secondary Department, Miss Mary Paul;
Primary Department, Miss Ami Brad
way; Assistant, Miss Lillian Durell; Fen
wick, Miss Mary l.. Saddler, from Mt.
Pleasant, Del. School will reopen on the
first Monday of September.
N. II. Lippincott met with an accident
on Monday night that came near proving a
serious one. lie had a carpenter at work
during the day at his farm, and was start
ing to bring him with his tools into Woods
town. Tho tool box was in the wagon
and among them an inch chiscl, the point
of which stuck upward. In climbing into
the wagon Mr.. Lippincott's foot slipped
and he fell upon the box of tools, the point
of the chisel penetrating his thigh and
making q deep cut. Dir. Sender dressed
the wound and serious consequences were
averted.
Many people have an absurd fear of
thunder and lightning. Any one may be
startled by n sudden fash or heavy clap,
but at the same time it is perfectly harm
le~SH-hShthlh tii"b is sccii anu NLhtli!uer
that is heard will not harm you-they are
spent and gone. Persons never see the
flash that kills them, it does its work be-
fore they can see, hear or feel. Some poo
pie imagine that q flash of lightning is near
in proportion to its brightness, but that is
no criterion. A good way to calculate TIE
distance of lightning is to count the pnlse-
beats between the flash and the report.
Sound will travel a mile during about six
beats of the pulse.